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Vintage Saturday: The Female of the Species

December 8, 2012 Ian McCollum 10

When Nag the basking cobra hears the careless foot of man, He will sometimes wriggle sideways and avoid it if he can. But his mate makes no such motion where she camps beside the trail. […]

Vintage Saturday: Close Air Support

December 1, 2012 Ian McCollum 13

Vintage Saturday: Spoils of War

November 24, 2012 Ian McCollum 9

Canaidna inspecting Jap type 96 at Kiska Aug 1943 I believe this is a Canadian solider on the island of Kiska in the Aleutians, inspecting a Japanese Type 96 machine gun.

Vintage Saturday: Resistance in Style

November 17, 2012 Ian McCollum 7

This is a pretty well-known photo, but damn if it isn’t a good one.

Vintage Saturday: Desperation

November 10, 2012 Ian McCollum 9

Tomorrow is Armistice Day, and we should all take a few quiet moments to reflect on the nature of war. For all its glamorization, war is the tragic and cruel destruction of life and we […]

Vintage Saturday: MOUT

November 3, 2012 Ian McCollum 5

Japanese Type 3 HMG on a wheeled cart – photo courtesy of Max Popenker.

Vintage Saturday: Maxim-Tokarev

October 27, 2012 Ian McCollum 20

Reader Ruy has sent us this great photo of a very unusual gun in action in the Spanish Civil War – a Maxim-Tokarev “light” machine gun.

Vintage Saturday: More BAR!

October 20, 2012 Ian McCollum 11

The BAR sure got around, didn’t it? This is a Polish wz.28 Belgian Modele 30 model in China (thanks to Leszek for the correction).

Vintage Saturday: La Decena Tragica

October 13, 2012 Ian McCollum 6

La Decena Tragica (the Tragic Ten) is the common name for the ten days in February 1913 when Mexican president Francisco Madero was deposed and executed by military coup.

Vintage Saturday: LMG Variety Pack

October 6, 2012 Ian McCollum 9

ZB light machine guns are pretty often seen with Chinese troops, but the DP-28s are less common. And the BAR variant (either a Colt or FN-D) is downright unusual.